‘Green’ Alternative Fuel Set for First In-Space Test
Satellites love hydrazine – a type of space propellant – but it’s toxic to people and extremely difficult to handle. A non-toxic alternative will be …
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Satellites love hydrazine – a type of space propellant – but it’s toxic to people and extremely difficult to handle. A non-toxic alternative will be …
Media are invited to NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans at 9:30 a.m. CDT Friday, June 28, to view progress on the rocket core …
Media are invited to a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 10 a.m. EDT Tuesday, July 2, celebrating the renaming of NASA’s Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation …
Space Station Science Highlights: Week of June 17, 2019 Source:: space station 2
Harmful algal blooms cause massive problems in coastal areas and lakes across the United States. When toxin-containing aquatic organisms multiply and form a bloom, it …
IC 10 is a remarkable object. It is the closest-known starburst galaxy, meaning that it is undergoing a furious bout of star formation fueled by …
Fifty years ago, an unparalleled team of experts in a mission control center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston landed the first humans on …
NASA has selected two new missions to advance our understanding of the Sun and its dynamic effects on space. Source:: Goddard
The electric motors for X-57’s Mod II vehicle and their propellers were powered up and spun together for the first time as part of an …
Target: Jupiter Mission: Juno Instrument: JunoCam Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill Source:: updates
Mission: Mars 2020 Rover Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Source:: updates
Mission: Mars 2020 Rover Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Source:: updates
As a child, my bedroom was adorned with NASA posters, and I would lay awake at night dreaming of space exploration. Growing up in Wisconsin …
NASA astronaut Anne McClain and two crewmates on the International Space Station are scheduled to conclude their stay aboard the orbiting laboratory Monday, June 24. …
To help determine how much freshwater is present as snow across the globe, a team of researchers is creating a new computer-based tool that simulates …
Target: Mars Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey Instrument: THEMIS Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Source:: updates
At 5:30 a.m. EDT Thursday, June 20, 2019, a 40-foot tall rocket carrying 28 student experiments (measuring acceleration, humidity, pressure, temperature and radiation counts) launched …
NASA’s X-57 project has marked two critical milestones, taking two major steps toward demonstrating the benefits of electric propulsion for aviation. Source:: Armstrong Flight Center …
The pilot of NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology, or QueSST, aircraft will navigate the skies in a cockpit unlike any other. Source:: updates 3
This week in 1967, the Saturn V third stage, S-IVB-209, was successfully static-fired for a mainstage duration of 465 seconds in the Beta I test …
A team of astronomers used a set of long Chandra observations, totaling about two weeks of observing, of the Coma galaxy cluster to probe gas …
NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan will be available from 7 to 8:15 a.m. EDT Monday, July 1, for live satellite interviews from Star City, Russia, before …
Media are invited to attend a panel on June 20 at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center featuring the current director of NASA’s Marshall Space …
The life-saving Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System (Auto GCAS) was awarded the 2018 Robert J. Collier Trophy by the National Aeronautic Association June 13. Source:: …
In a galaxy hosting a structure nicknamed the “Teacup,” a galactic storm is raging. Source:: Chandra
Scientific investigations conducted on the International Space Station last week included work that could improve design of life support systems and help keep astronauts healthy …
Target: Mars Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey Instrument: THEMIS Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Source:: updates
Mission: Mars 2020 Rover Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Source:: updates
Mission: Mars 2020 Rover Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Source:: updates
This flag accompanied NASA astronaut Alan B. Shepard on his 15-minute suborbital journey on May 5, 1961. Source:: updates 3
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine will be available to speak with media during the International Paris Air Show on Tuesday, June 18, in Le Bourget, France. …
When massive stars die at the end of their short lives, they light up the cosmos with bright, explosive bursts of light and material known …
By Bill Keeter ISS HAM pass: The crew completed a HAM pass with Peninsula Grammar, Melbourne, Australia, which is a boarding school for approximately 1400 …
Target: Saturn Mission: Cassini-Huygens Instrument: Imaging Science Subsystem Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Source:: updates
For 10 years, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has scanned the sky for gamma-ray bursts, the universe’s most luminous explosions. A new catalog of the …
On June 12, OSIRIS-REx broke its own world record for the closest orbit of a planetary body by a spacecraft. Source:: Goddard